Draconian breath attacks
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When draconians reach XL 7, they receive a colour and an associated draconian breath attack. Each colour receives its own unique attack, except for grey draconians (they stop breathing entirely and become immune to certain effects as a result). While these attacks are fairly powerful, they all come with a significant hunger cost and inflict the breath status effect, preventing you from using them repeatedly in combat.
- Red: A bolt of flame which leaves clouds of fire in its trail.
- White: A bolt of frost which ignores AC and knocks back flying creatures.
- Green: A bolt of noxious fumes, which leaves Mephitic Clouds in its trail. The monster version instead creates poison clouds.
- Yellow: A glob of acid which corrodes equipment and can cause bleeding.
- Black: Creates uncontrollable wild explosions of lightning mixed with (also uncontrollable) lightning bolts.
- Pale: A line of steam clouds which deal minor damage, but also block LOS.
- Purple: A bolt of power which deals irresistible damage and remove buffs.
- Mottled: Breathes Sticky Flame on an adjacent monster which may splash onto other adjacent monsters.
- Undead (Lichform): Breathes a Bolt of Draining at a line of targets.
The monster versions of draconians have the same breath attacks (also depending on their colour).